At the banquet the little group of citizens sat together at a table apart, a round onyx slab draped with translucent green silk.

After the service, mourners filed slowly past the coffins, dropping flower petals and swaths of translucent silk on the bodies - as if so much beauty would forever banish the tragedy.

As they left the confines of the city and started on the long straight empty road to Samana, the sun was glowing ruby-red behind the dark wooded hills, the sky translucent delicate silk.

These include translucent silk and cotton window screens like the one behind her (they start at $300), with a picture of a barley field just before harvest in County Wicklow, Ireland.

The enormous grub was slowly smothering itself in translucent silk, from the bottom up.

In the black-glass sky the stars were twinkling, and the great arm of the Milky Way arched across the city like trailing translucent silk.

Presently I put the book down and the light out and watched the moving silhouette on that translucent silk.

He held up a 12-foot length of translucent, painted shantung silk in front of a window.

Her figure was supple beneath the translucent silk.